Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | t2d-standard-2 | c4a-highmem-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Details | Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs | High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs |
| Instance Family | General-purpose | General-purpose |
| Description | 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 2 | 2 |
| Memory | 8 GiB | 16 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | x86_64 | arm64 |
| Processor | AMD EPYC Milan | Google Axion |
| Coremark Score | 59889 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | no |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | no | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | no |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 16 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | NVMe |
| Local SSD | no | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 6000 GB | |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | no | yes |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | yes | yes |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 1.31x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2d-standard-2 | c4a-highmem-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0845 | 0.1179 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0952 | 0.1391 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0952 | 0.1391 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0978 | 0.1417 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0980 | 0.1454 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0980 | 0.1474 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0997 | 0.1514 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0997 | 0.1532 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1015 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1015 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1015 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0845 | 0.1226 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1022 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1027 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1042 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1084 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1085 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1089 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1089 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1089 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1090 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1107 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0929 | 0.1238 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1182 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.1199 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.1199 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.1208 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.1341 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.1352 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0929 | 0.1285 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0929 | 0.1298 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0930 | 0.1298 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0930 | 0.1328 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0930 | 0.1344 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0930 | 0.1365 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.0558 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0845 | 0.1179 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0845 | 0.1179 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.1179 |